c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
"A major league pitching coach is a really difficult job. It takes a big commitment in terms of time, travel and workload." — David Cone
"Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible." — Tony Robbins
"To us Americans much has been given of us much is required. With all our faults and mistakes, it is our strength in support of the freedom our forefathers loved which has saved mankind from subjection to totalitarian power." — Norman Thomas
"If a jerk burns the flag, America is not threatened, democracy is not under siege, freedom is not at risk." — Gary Ackerman
"We have three centers: the emotional center, the intellectual center, and the physical body center. Each one of them has its own intelligence. How much better would we be if all three were working in unison?" — Erin Gray
"In parallel with the development of my interests in technical gadgetry I began to acquire a profound love of and respect for the natural world which motivates my scientific thinking to this day." — Robert B. Laughlin
"A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying." — B. F. Skinner
"There's a lot of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it." — Josh Billings
"Coming through the fire and through the storm of life with a strong man, my fiance Ashanti, whom I've been dating for eight months and two wonderful children beside me, I'm just so happy that I have been able to maintain my integrity and get to where I am today with the right energy around me." — Angie Stone
"Tennis has had a very positive impact on my life." — Gabriela Sabatini
"A theoretical grounding in agronomy must, therefore, include knowledge of biological laws." — Trofim Lysenko
"Often the magical elements in my books are standing in for elements of the real world, the small and magical-in-their-own-right sorts of things that we take for granted and no longer pay attention to, like the bonds of friendship that entwine our own lives with those of other people and places." — Charles de Lint
"As I have pointed out, it is the Christian tradition that is the most fundamental element in Western culture. It lies at the base not only of Western religion, but also of Western morals and Western social idealism." — Christopher Dawson
"Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family." — Virginia Satir
"I am not politically correct. I am all about the facts, I am all about the truth and I am all about Godly pursuits and what this country was built on, and I am not apologetic about it." — Luke Scott
"To have the kind of year you want to have, something has to happen that you can't explain why it happened. Something has to happen that you can't coach." — Bobby Bowden
"I always made my food congenial to my constitution, and my health was always excellent." — Giacomo Casanova
"I like pop music. I consider rock 'n' roll to be a branch of pop music." — Tom Stoppard
"Do I believe in arbitration? I do. But not in arbitration between the lion and the lamb, in which the lamb is in the morning found inside the lion." — Samuel Gompers
"Barack Obama's enemies are the people who make this country work. Barack Obama's enemies are those who succeed. Those are the people whose income he wants to redistribute. Those are the people whose income he wants to take, using the power and the force of the federal government to do it." — Rush Limbaugh
"When the farmer can sell directly to the consumer, it is a more active process. There's more contact. The consumer can know, who am I buying this from? What's their name? Do they have a face? Is the food they are selling coming out of Mexico with pesticides?" — Jerry Brown
"We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment." — Hilaire Belloc
"I was a hop-around. I hung out with the rockabilly crew, the guys who were trying to be rappers, the funny kids." — Katy Perry
"I would love to work with Anthony Hopkins I would love to work with Meryl Streep I would love to work with DeNiro I would love to work with Johnny Depp I'd love to work with Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow... I think she's amazing." — Tara Reid
"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I'm not particularly precious about the theatrical experience any more." — Edward Norton
"There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families." — Margaret Thatcher
"All the principles of heaven and earth are living inside you. Life itself is truth, and this will never change. Everything in heaven and earth breathes. Breath is the thread that ties creation together." — Morihei Ueshiba
"Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror." — Herbert Spencer
"Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom." — Charles Horton Cooley
"Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game." — Donald Trump
"War is what happens when language fails." — Margaret Atwood
"Industrialization based on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one aspect of the revolution that is being wrought by technology." — Emily Greene Balch
"My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people." — Patricia Highsmith
"Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." — George Bernard Shaw
"I'm not a royal family watcher." — Bill Nighy
"America is the best half-educated country in the world." — Nicholas M. Butler
"The British political system and the whole clapped out Westminster architecture, and the language that we use about politics, it's completely unsustainable. You either decide to be part of that transition to do something different. Or you cling to old certainties." — Nick Clegg
"I don't compromise my principles for politics." — Chris Christie
"Yeah, my drum programming especially is based on my knowledge of playing a drum kit. For the bass too, definitely. It was the first thing that I translated any sort of ideas through. It must have shaped it somehow." — Tom Jenkinson
"Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorrow." — Dirk Benedict
"The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it's not without doubt but in spite of doubt." — Rollo May
"My mom is two people to me. She's my mom number one, and then she's this lady most comedians know as being a legendary owner of a nightclub that's responsible for starting a lot of heavy careers." — Pauly Shore
"I thought of Paris as a beauty spot on the face of the earth, and of London as a big freckle." — James Weldon Johnson
"If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem." — Abraham Lincoln
"Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived." — David Hume
"Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - what are they? They are the happiest people in the world." — William Lyon Phelps
"The business is a very tricky obstacle course, and you should be very clear about work begetting work. If you're not working, you're not interesting." — Elisabeth Rohm
"One of the reasons why people - particularly young people - love action movies is because what they are really looking for is justice." — Steven Seagal
"The best mind-altering drug is the truth." — Lily Tomlin
"Excellent education and an excellent environment are two hallmarks of our state. How we treat our environment is connected to so many other opportunities in Maine." — John Baldacci
"Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops." — Thomas J. Watson
"No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time." — Henry A. Kissinger
"It seems like the chaos of this world is accelerating, but so is the beauty in the consciousness of more and more people." — Anthony Kiedis
"Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost." — Joyce Carol Oates
"Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom." — Euripides
"Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming." — John Wooden
"I feel connected to the Second World War because my father lost his father in that war. So, through my dad and the effect it had on him of losing his father young, I always felt connected to the war. It goes back years, but it still feels to me as if we're completely living in it." — Tom Hooper
"We never really felt a real level of respect. The fame was fantastic, but that wasn't that important to me, because for every million people that loved me I focused on the one that hated me." — Donnie Wahlberg
"Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence." — Abigail Adams
"I have no useful theories about love and marriage." — Michael Cunningham
"Remember, I come from such an excessively overdone, red-carpet place called Hollywood. So I'm used to people blowing up their success in ways that are far above and beyond the truth." — Shirley MacLaine
"I am an optimist because I want to change things for the better and I know that blood has to be spilled and disharmony and cruelty are necessary to do that." — Henry Rollins
"There is no question that photography has played a major role in the environmental movement." — Galen Rowell
"When you put the interest of a kid on money instead of heart then you're destroying the beauty of our lives and our thought process, which should be about how much responsibilities you carry as an athlete and a citizen." — Alexis Arguello
"Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery." — R. Buckminster Fuller
"Whenever I listen to a children's orchestra, I learn. They feel everything, they enjoy everything, they have amazing energy." — Gustavo Dudamel
"I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best." — Walt Whitman
"These days, you have the option of staying home, blogging in your underwear, and not having your words mangled. I think I like the direction things are headed." — Marc Andreessen
"Here's a nation, one of the founding pillars was freedom of speech and freedom of expression. And yet, we have imposed upon people restrictions on what they can say, on what they can think. And the media is the largest proponent of this, crucifying people who say things really quite innocently." — Benjamin Carson
"Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art wise be wise and thou art happy." — Akhenaton
"Is there any purpose to translating poetry? A poem does not contain information of importance, like a signpost or a warning notice." — James Buchan
"If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?" — John Cleese
"Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage." — Marcus Tullius Cicero
"History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion." — Thomas Carlyle
"I feel so lucky to have both a son and a daughter, because there's a different relationship with each of them." — Hugh Jackman
"Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none." — Thomas Jefferson
"I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can't ever remember a time when I didn't." — Quentin Tarantino
"I have developed a very strong partiality for the dead: they don't talk back, they don't sue, and they don't have angry relatives." — Ron Chernow
"Marriage is a very sacred institution and should not be degraded by allowing every other type of relationship to be made equivalent to it." — Benjamin Carson
"The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict." — Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Rest when you're weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work." — Ralph Marston
"Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has had causes and beginnings nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials." — Avicenna
"You've got to have dreams to keep you going." — Steve Waugh
"Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war love is a growing up." — James A. Baldwin
"James Cagney, Steve McQueen, I loved all those guys. I grew up loving the movies but had no desire to be in them." — Mark Wahlberg
"If you have four years to complete your college education, do it." — Bo Jackson
"Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs." — Karl Marx
"Literature isn't a moral beauty contest. Its power arises from the authority and audacity with which the impersonation is pulled off the belief it inspires is what counts." — Philip Roth
"The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers." — Lewis Thomas
"There are people who drove me crazy, but they got the job done. And when I see that person again, I nod my head. Respect." — Bill Murray
"The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink." — George Orwell
"Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody." — John Churton Collins
"Throughout my whole life, as a performer, I've never played with a band. I've always played alone, so I was never required to stay in rhythm or anything. So it was a real different experience for me to start playing with a band. There were so many basic things for me to learn." — Steve Martin
"Movies are something people see all over the world because there is a certain need for it." — Wim Wenders
"It seems that if one is working from the point of view of getting beauty in one's equations, and if one has really a sound insight, one is on a sure line of progress." — Paul Dirac
"Technology is a wonderful tool, but also if used incorrectly a horrible tool. We're fascinated by all aspects of it, whatever makes our human lives easier on the planet, but eventually there will have to be some sort of merger. The fascination isn't going to die down." — Reggie Watts
"I was never very interested in boys - and there were plenty of them - vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay." — Bette Davis
"Soon we saw that money going to women brought much more benefit to the family than money going to the men. So we changed our policy and gave a high priority to women. As a result, now 96% of our four million borrowers in Grameen Bank are women." — Muhammad Yunus
"Gotta stay in the gym, stay funny, stay sharp. I just love working." — Marlon Wayans
"War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it." — Martin Luther
"My joking answer to this question is that I leave a bowl of milk out on the back porch every night for the Idea Fairy. In the morning, the milk is gone and there's a brand-new shiny idea by the bowl." — Sarah Zettel
"If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good." — Thomas J. Watson
"American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it." — James A. Baldwin
"Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity." — Hermann Hesse
"Girls shouldn't worry about being the equal of men in the business world." — Marilyn Monroe
"Period costume films are fun to discover, but they're not relatable. It's more, 'Wow, that's cool - did it really look like that back then?' Whereas with a comedy, you're like, 'Yeah, that's me, that's my friends.' No matter what, I want people to relate." — Paul Feig
"I think everyone shares a fear of failure - that you're only as good as your most recent collection. That's definitely a fear, but it's a fear that fuels me, that makes me want to work harder, that makes me take on more challenges." — Alexander Wang
"A little perspective, like a little humor, goes a long way." — Allen Klein
"A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep." — W. H. Auden
"Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake." — E. M. Forster
"The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action." — Orison Swett Marden
"I thought I was benefiting the Indians as well as the government, by taking them all over the United States, and giving them a correct idea of the customs, life, etc., of the pale faces, so that when they returned to their people they could make known all they had seen." — Buffalo Bill
"Roosevelt talked not only about Freedom from Fear, but also Freedom from Want." — Jeffrey Sachs
"A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they're capable of understanding." — Steve Prefontaine
"If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy." — Muhammad Iqbal
"There's a feeling that strength is determined by the size of a union. That clearly is nonsense." — Arthur Scargill
"I am a contradictory mess but I see it as my prerogative to change my mood like the weather." — Shirley Manson
"A couple of months ago, I was down in Florida for the Food and Wine Festival. And this journalist grabbed me and said, 'How does it feel to be a TV guy? You're no longer in the restaurant business.' And I laughed. I asked him, 'How long do you think it takes me to do a season?' He said, 'Well, 200 days.' And I was like, '200 days? Try 20!'" — Tom Colicchio
"Dude, I didn't say Jude Law can't act. I didn't say Jude Law was in bad movies. I just said he's in every movie." — Chris Rock
"You're now getting a new breed of people like Il Divo and Andrea Bocelli and I think that's why people feel less intimidated by classical music than they once did." — Katherine Jenkins
"The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education." — Martin Luther King, Jr.
"The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it." — Omar Khayyam
"My daughter, the one who lives nearby, is raising her children to be very much aware. We went on a nature walk on Monday I'm learning so much from her." — Joanne Woodward
"If I am elected President of these United States, I will work with all my energy and soul to restore that America, to lift our eyes to a better future. That future is our destiny. That future is out there. It is waiting for us. Our children deserve it, our nation depends upon it, the peace and freedom of the world require it." — Mitt Romney
"I want to see as many movies as I can and I covet a lot of weird influential movies." — Kat Dennings
"The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival." — Adrienne Rich
"True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves." — Theodor Adorno
"Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information. It is a creative human activity, its geniuses acting more as artists than as information processors." — Stephen Jay Gould
"Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding." — Burt Rutan
"I tried the Atkins diet in the Seventies when pregnant with my son, as I didn't want to pile on the pounds. Now, so long as I'm healthy, I don't care what my scales say." — Britt Ekland
"One of the things that I've always thought I would like to do is to develop an environmental index. Then people can measure their own environmental performance on an index as they do in other ways." — Maurice Strong
"Education, like neurosis, begins at home." — Milton Sapirstein
"I just wish I could understand my father." — Michael Jackson
"Poverty is uncomfortable but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim." — James A. Garfield
"Those youngsters go out there and set a record and clinch the pole position. But what do you do if you wreck your car. That record doesn't spend too well." — Buck Baker
"I've come to the conclusion that beautiful women in the West aren't comfortable finding strength in their femininity. They want to do masculine-oriented things to establish their femininity. It's a contradiction." — Wesley Snipes
"As all human beings are, in my view, creatures of God's design, we must respect all other human beings. That does not mean I have to agree with their choices or agree with their opinions, but indeed I respect them as human beings." — Stockwell Day
"All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit." — Sophocles
"I'd love to pop back into 'Being Human' as Adam. I love the character so much. I've never really played a character like that. I'm always playing the geek, so to play a kid who is very energetic when he wants to be, and who is always trying to get the girls, was really cool." — Craig Roberts
"The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity." — Bryant McGill
"In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory." — Alfred North Whitehead
"You cannot do anything without God.It's a profound and elemental truth. Not, you cannot do most things without God. You will not be able to do anything that you want, truly, in fulfillment, without God." — Marco Rubio
"When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity." — Napoleon Bonaparte
"I wasn't really a work conscious type of person." — Michael Jordan
"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter." — Winston Churchill
"To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficult of all, and so important, withal, that nations have perished from their failure to achieve it." — Irving Babbitt
"I've been asked to do action-oriented movies in the past and they just haven't been right for me." — Guy Pearce
"My teenage years were exactly what they were supposed to be. Everybody has their own path. It's laid out for you. It's just up to you to walk it." — Justin Timberlake
"Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts." — Soren Kierkegaard
"The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them." — Ernest Hemingway
"I love the paranormal, because there, every genre I write can become one beacon for my imagination." — Leslie Banks
"Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy." — Jim Rohn
"I think the amazing thing about gospel music is that not only does it lift up the death and resurrection of our Lord, which is consistent with the Gospel, but it is uniquely communicated depending upon the generation." — T. D. Jakes
"On one of the most personal matters of our lives, our health care, President Obama would turn decision making over to government bureaucrats. He forced through Obama-care and I will repeal it." — Mitt Romney
"People don't understand computers. Computers are magical boxes that do things. People believe what computers tell them." — Bruce Schneier
"I don't see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly." — Arne Jacobsen
"I'm a huge fan of Chicago sports and Chicago food, and I love going home and my family is still there. I guess it's pretty easy to have a normal life in Chicago." — Matt Walsh
"A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession." — Albert Camus
"I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?" — Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces." — Marcel Proust
"To be able to sit in Donald Trump's apartment and talk about the future of corporate real estate was amazing." — Shia LaBeouf
"To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead." — Bertrand Russell
"I approach love differently now that I know it's hard for it to work out." — Taylor Swift
"If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh." — Lord Acton
"Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within." — Ralph Cudworth
"When it becomes a revolutionary act to eat real food, we are in trouble." — Mark Hyman
"There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall." — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
"If you told me when I was a teen that I would end up being a teacher, I would have said you're out of your mind, because quite frankly I hated school." — Tim Gunn
"I think you have to be cool to be a good flirt, and I don't think I'm very cool." — Harry Styles
"I am artistic so I reserve the right to change my mind at any point. I just like to do different things. What is more important than the name is that people know that I really like acting, I enjoy it and I want people to know that I am serious." — LL Cool J
"There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money." — Benjamin Franklin
"There's always something to suggest that you'll never be who you wanted to be. Your choice is to take it or keep on moving." — Phylicia Rashad
"I think there should be holy war against yoga classes." — Werner Herzog
"Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth." — Henry David Thoreau
"If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer." — Alfred North Whitehead
"It was a very profound experience, getting in touch with that part of us, in all of us human beings, that is committed beyond yourself to the point of giving everything you have, including your life, for other people, for your fellow man." — Raul Julia
"I'd like to introduce someone who has just come into my life. I've admired him for 35 years. He's someone who represents integrity, honesty, art, and on top of that stuff I'm actually sleeping with him." — Shirley MacLaine
"Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced." — Leo Tolstoy
"The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission." — John F. Kennedy
"Having been let out of the barn once, I know I wouldn't be happy if I were home all the time." — Meryl Streep
"It's interesting to see what people are saying about me. I like keep up with the latest rumors! A while back there was a rumor that I was going to do a film with Demi Moore about the takeover of Commodore computers!" — Warwick Davis
"I learned much more about acting from philosophy courses, psychology courses, history and anthropology than I ever learned in acting class." — Tim Robbins
"Talking about music is like dancing about architecture." — Steve Martin
"Office politics are bloody-minded, but weak on content." — Mason Cooley
"Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own." — Carol Burnett
"He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers." — Henry Adams
"I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone's wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really." — Marilyn Monroe
"Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo." — George Bernard Shaw
"Knowledge and human power are synonymous." — Francis Bacon
"There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying." — Josh Billings
"I wanted to travel from the beginning. As a kid, I used to dream about airplanes, before I ever flew in one." — Mary Ellen Mark
"Music is a weapon in the war against unhappiness." — Jason Mraz
"Performance capture is a technology, not a genre it's just another way of recording an actor's performance." — Andy Serkis
"I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films." — Oskar Werner
"I had been a reporter for 15 years when I set out to write my first novel. I knew how to research an article or profile a subject - skills that I assumed would be useless when it came to fiction. It was from my imagination that the characters in my story would emerge." — Amy Waldman
"But if our nation goes over a financial Niagara, we won't have much strength and, eventually, we won't have peace. We are currently borrowing the entire defense budget from foreign investors. Within a few years, we will be spending more on interest payments than on national security. That is not, as our military friends say, a 'robust strategy.'" — Mitch Daniels
"Our goals for this nation must be nothing less than to double the size of our economy and bring prosperity and jobs, ownership and equality of opportunity to all Americans, especially those living in our nation's pockets of poverty." — Jack Kemp
"Not much shocked me. You know, I worked in a home for Alzheimer's patients and my dad used to be really into murders and stuff, so I saw dead bodies. It desensitised me to a lot of things." — Ellie Goulding
"Being a celebrity you always get really good seats to sporting events but you never get as good seats as the photographers get. And I really love sports. So one of the scams I have going now is I want to learn sports photography so I can get better seats at a sporting event." — Drew Carey
"The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players." — Blaine Lee
"It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically." — Aneurin Bevan
"Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression." — Eleanor Roosevelt
"War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society." — Lewis Mumford
"It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach Parnassus except by flying thither." — Gerard Manley Hopkins
"I'm a Gemini, so I change my mind every day." — Natalie Portman
"Man doesn't dictate what you do or how you do it. If you believe in God, believe in God have your faith in him. That's where my faith lies." — Ray Lewis
"I'm either going to go completely mental, completely bankrupt, or have the best success of my life." — Katy Perry
"Unfortunately, the elimination of incentives such as parole, good time credits and funding for college courses, means that fewer inmates participate in and excel in literacy, education, treatment and other development programs." — Bobby Scott
"There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies." — Robert Frost
"Jews survived all the defeats, expulsions, persecutions and pogroms, the centuries in which they were regarded as a pariah people, even the Holocaust itself, because they never gave up the faith that one day they would be free to live as Jews without fear." — Jonathan Sacks
"So many people release albums before Christmas and they get lost in the Christmas rush." — Bonnie Tyler
"There's a sort of sibling moratorium when you're establishing yourself as an adult. So much of your energy has to be focused on other things like work and kids. But when people become more settled, siblings tend to regroup because now you're building a new extended family." — Jeffrey Kluger
"You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change." — John Cleese
"No poem is easily grasped so why should any reader expect fast results?" — John Barton
"If there is dissatisfaction with the status quo, good. If there is ferment, so much the better. If there is restlessness, I am pleased. Then let there be ideas, and hard thought, and hard work. If man feels small, let man make himself bigger." — Hubert H. Humphrey
"I wasn't some weird loner in school, but I definitely wasn't invited to any of the cool parties." — Paul Wesley
"I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back." — Fred Allen
"The most amazing thing to me about the sea is the tide. A harbour like St. Ives is totally transformed in a very short space of time by the arrival or departure of the sea." — John Dyer
"I never played sports. I wasn't any good at them." — Leighton Meester
"I never found accents difficult, after learning languages." — Vivien Leigh
"Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release, that we have something more important than our separate selves, and that is the marriage. There's immense happiness that can come from working towards that." — Nick Cave
"Taking it in its wider and generic application, I understand faith to be the supplement of sense or, to change the phrase, all knowledge which comes not to us through our senses we gain by faith in others." — Matthew Simpson
"Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce." — John F. Kennedy
"Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new." — Hubert H. Humphrey
"A universe with a God would look quite different from a universe without one. A physics, a biology where there is a God is bound to look different. So the most basic claims of religion are scientific. Religion is a scientific theory." — Richard Dawkins
"Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility." — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
"All soldiers who serve their country and put their lives at risk need to know that if something happens to them, their families will be well taken care of. That's the bond we have with our military men and women and their families." — Jeff Sessions
"I think the biggest thing is clean as you go. Wash all your knives, cutting boards, dishes, when you are done cooking, not look at a sink full of dishes after you are done. Cleaning as you go helps keep away cross contamination and you avoid having food borne bacteria." — Cat Cora
"Ironing boards are a classic example of something I find horrible about modern society: the excitementation, for want of a better word, of mundane things." — Daniel Radcliffe
"If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it." — Margaret Fuller
"I could be on 52nd and Third in Manhattan up and ask a strange for directions and they will help you, that's a rural heart. Your car breaks down in the middle of Iowa or somewhere, or Tennessee where I'm from, people want to help each other. Given each opportunity, you see how people come together." — Rodney Atkins
"We need a new religion." — Lauren Hutton
"We of Africa protest that, in this day and age, we should continue to be treated as lesser human beings than other races." — Robert Mugabe
"My father instilled in me the attitude of prevailing. If there's a challenge, go for it. If there's a wall to break down, break it down." — Donny Osmond
"There are some people who become best friends with everyone they photograph. There are people that I really like and admire and respect, but in a way I think it's better to keep a distance. I think you get better pictures of people that you don't know very well." — Mary Ellen Mark
"We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight." — Calvin Coolidge
"My new movie, Fools Rush In, is a romantic comedy and the girl I play in that is very warm, very sweet." — Salma Hayek
"Patience is the best medicine." — John Florio
"There is something about the South that accepts the supernatural. If you don't accept it and you're having a conversation with someone who does, it's just one of those polite things where you don't question their belief in ghosts. You just go, 'Oh, yeah, okay.' It's amazing to be able to have conversations like that." — Alice Englert
"Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless." — Honore de Balzac
"Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God." — George Washington Carver
"When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader." — Plato
"Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success." — Samuel Goldwyn
"Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth." — Umberto Eco
"Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get." — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
"It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it." — W. H. Auden
"The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work." — John Ruskin
"A year is an eternity in politics - though less than a moment in history." — Eliot Spitzer
"Civil marriage, like all civil rights provided by the government, must be provided equally to all Americans." — Benjamin Todd Jealous
"I had to learn my faith and look after my family, and I had to make priorities. But now I've done it all and there's a little space for me to fill in the universe of music again." — Cat Stevens
"So many financial dreams are thwarted by the failure to act upon good intentions." — Suze Orman
"Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated." — Will Rogers
"Planning cities is a necessary but risky business." — Cate Blanchett
"We need to be aware of what we are capable of first and realize that if you place your dreams really really high, you do have the potential to get to that level." — Vicente Fox
"Eighty percent of all choices are based on fear. Most people don't choose what they want they choose what they think is safe." — Phil McGraw
"If guys don't respect themselves, they don't respect other people. That's times and personalities. And all of them are not that way. But it don't take but one or two to screw up the whole crowd." — Richard Petty
"Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right." — Shirley Hazzard
"Many people say I smile more in Africa than in Sweden." — Henning Mankell
"When we talk about how movies used to be made, it was over 100 years of film, literal, physical film, with emulsion, that we would expose to light and we would get pictures." — Keanu Reeves
"God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained." — Mahatma Gandhi
"There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love." — Washington Irving
"Your enjoyment of the world is never right, till every morning you awake in Heaven: see yourself in your Father's palace and look upon the skies, the earth, and the air as celestial joys: having such a reverend esteem of all, as if you were among the angels." — Thomas Traherne
"I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere." — Jawaharlal Nehru
"Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience." — Carl Clinton Van Doren
"I'm vegan on home base, but when I travel to other countries, I throw it all into the garbage." — Lake Bell
"Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience." — Roger Bacon
"I've seen little pieces of 'Interview with a Vampire' when it was on TV, but I kind of always go yuck! I don't watch R-rated movies, so that really cuts down on a lot of the horror." — Stephenie Meyer
"The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison." — James Cash Penney
"I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figure out the language distant enough to get me decent medical techniques and a ticket to the Moon." — Larry Niven
"There used to be this country called the Soviet Union it's not there anymore. Our technology was better than theirs." — Tom Clancy
"From their teenage years on, children are considerably more capable of causing parents unhappiness than bringing them happiness. That is one reason parents who rely on their children for happiness make both their children and themselves miserable." — Dennis Prager
"They have called Operation Iraqi Freedom a war of choice that isn't part of the real war on terror. Someone should tell that to al Qaeda." — John Boehner
"The difficulties we face originate from one of three sources. Some are sent to us by the Lord to test our faith, others are the result of Satan's attacks, and still others are due to our own sinful choices." — Charles Stanley
"If we pollute the air, water and soil that keep us alive and well, and destroy the biodiversity that allows natural systems to function, no amount of money will save us." — David Suzuki
"Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think." — Arthur Schopenhauer
"Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money." — Marcus Tullius Cicero
"It's the same each time with progress. First they ignore you, then they say you're mad, then dangerous, then there's a pause and then you can't find anyone who disagrees with you." — Tony Benn
"The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after." — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"There is no great genius without a mixture of madness." — Aristotle
"Eternal truth, eternal righteousness, eternal love these only can triumph, for these only can endure." — Joseph Barber Lightfoot
"Of course, the ideal scenario for parenting is obviously two parents of a mature age." — Jennifer Aniston
"When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale." — John W. Gardner
"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." — Mark Twain
"Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future." — Brian Tracy
"He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense." — Joseph Conrad
"I bought a lot of rubbish things that kids buy: skateboards and clothes and typical teenage stuff. And, as soon as I could, I wasted a lot of money on cars - BMW's mostly - for myself and my family." — Tom Felton
"A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side." — Aristotle
"Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties." — Charles Spurgeon
"You can do more good by being good than any other way." — John Wooden
"We don't need new taxes. We need new taxpayers, people that are gainfully employed, making money and paying into the tax system. And then we need a government that has the discipline to take that additional revenue and use it to pay down the debt and never grow it again." — Marco Rubio
"The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work." — Augusten Burroughs
"Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all." — Nelson Mandela
"Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions." — Gerald Brenan
"If some peoples pretend that history or geography gives them the right to subjugate other races, nations, or peoples, there can be no peace." — Ludwig von Mises
"My daughter's mother and I are no longer dating, and the people I'm most likely to date are those around me, who are athletes." — Tyson Gay
"Faith is not a notion, but a real strong essential hunger, an attracting or magnetic desire of Christ, which as it proceeds from a seed of the divine nature in us, so it attracts and unites with its like." — William Law
"They taught us because they wanted to pass the knowledge on and educate young musicians. It was not because they had to teach because they failed as musicians. There is a huge difference in the reasons why someone is teaching and what they can offer and what they cannot offer." — Miroslav Vitous
"Whether one believes or not, religion is as real a force in the life of the world as economics or politics, and it demands fair-minded attention. Even if you think the entire religious enterprise is at best misguided and at worst counterproductive, it remains vital, inspiring great good and, sometimes, great evil." — Jon Meacham
"A lot of my emotional issues come from dealing with the opposite sex. I've come to terms with the fact that I'll be retired before I can finally enter into a healthy relationship." — Adam Levine
"A lot of people put pressure on themselves and think it will be way too hard for them to live out their dreams. Mentors are there to say, 'Look, it's not that tough. It's not as hard as you think. Here are some guidelines and things I have gone through to get to where I am in my career.'" — Joe Jonas
"Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life." — William Hazlitt